Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With general improvements in standards of living , expectations have risen , so that young people are no longer prepared to do without the basic utilities or to accept a limited range of shops and services ( Thomas 1972 ) . |
| 2 | It could not prevent conflict and the outbreak of armed clashes between England and France , but it meant that considerable efforts were made , on both sides , to avert disputes or to seek a speedy reconciliation . |
| 3 | In electronics , filters are used , for example , to suppress an undesirable signal that occurs at some frequency , to extract sinusoidal signals over some particular frequency band from a wider range of sinusoidal signals and to convert a nonsinusoidal signal into a sinusoidal signal of the same period . |
| 4 | The only solution appeared to be to go round existing denominational organizations and to create a new body which would emphasize non-political aims and gather a following based on individuals , not denominations . |
| 5 | Until the eighteenth century settlement within the neighbouring parish of West Bromwich took the form of small groups of cottages clustered together in ‘ ends ’ around the heaths , where squatters had opportunities to graze a few animals and to build a little workshop . |
| 6 | She will also be able to establish mental goals and to organise a linked sequence of actions designed to achieve a particular objective . |
| 7 | You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 . |
| 8 | In any subject device , it is necessary to distinguish between syntactic and semantic relationships and to make a different kind of provision for each . |
| 9 | It represented a conscious effort to offset colonial influences and to promote a national culture which would reflect the new nation . |
| 10 | Experiments are now being conducted near Reading to determine yields and to develop a suitable threshing technique . |
| 11 | As has been mentioned , the dual aims of the CAB are , in short , to advise clients and to exercise a responsible influence on the development of social policy . |
| 12 | The portfolio matrix could be used to focus on different risk-return combinations and to develop a corporate mixed risk-return portfolio , but there is absolutely nothing inherent in the McKinsey-GE model which says that this is what a portfolio grid is meant to achieve . |
| 13 | Quality also is to be addressed with efforts made to increase the number of accredited companies and to introduce a Scotland-wide individual-consultant accreditation scheme . |
| 14 | Yeah , really it 's a frustrating end of it , but working for Time gives me the opportunity to be in these countries and to do a good photoreportage on the country , even though it 's very rarely published . |
| 15 | Mr Yeltsin 's team was preparing to counter-attack today with a draft of a new constitution that would extend the presidential term from five years to six and give him a right of veto over parliamentary Bills and to pick a small team of state ministers . |
| 16 | We were there not to service the latest release plans of the record companies but to represent a submerged but vastly influential music culture . |
| 17 | She used this power to pay off some political debts and to make a political statement by appointing Alison Walton Leland , a Houston stockbroker who is widow of a much-liked congressman , Mickey Leland , to the Texas A&M University board . |
| 18 | ‘ My first job is to learn Saatchi 's activities and to do a good job of selling the consulting businesses , ’ he said , in a reference to the company 's previously announced plans to sell its management consultancy arm . |
| 19 | Each wing was to be of two storeys and providing two wards of twelve beds each with one of the ground floor wards to be reserved for mental cases and to have a padded room . |
| 20 | The plan aimed to cut the armed forces by 500,000 from the current level of 2,100,000 , to reduce overseas deployments and to establish a new organizational framework for the military . |
| 21 | Three days before the presidential elections , the military government on Dec. 11 , 1989 , granted the Central Bank full autonomy under new statutes which allowed the Finance Minister to attend meetings and to have a 15-day veto on policy . |
| 22 | Yet these men and women are well off compared to their counterparts in Ghana where subject teams had been given just nine months to produce new curriculum plans and to launch a new series of materials to fit a ‘ new content and structure of education ’ announced by the cabinet . |
| 23 | Although these two types of margin are associated with distinct types of landscape , they may occur in close proximity owing to the tendency of transform faults to contain offset segments or to have a sinuous form rather than being purely straight ( Fig. 3.26 ) . |
| 24 | Managers are now therefore far more likely to demand sophisticated computer applications and to play a leading role in their development and implementation . |
| 25 | SIMON Dyer , director general of the AA , was in Belfast the other day to muster his troops and to present a European quality of service certificate to the local squad . |
| 26 | The EC also pledged to double aid to the Palestinians and to open a permanent office in the territories . |
| 27 | The Central Authority 's ambition to standardise was also based on the role accorded to it by statute ‘ … to co-ordinate the distribution of electricity by Area Boards and to exercise a general control over the policy of those Boards ’ . |
| 28 | As the Khmer Rouge attacks intensified , there was particularly heavy fighting north of the provincial capital of Kompong Thom as government units sought to repel the rebels and to reopen a main access road for UNTAC representatives stationed in the north of the country . |
| 29 | One of the few firm agreements announced by Bush gave the go-ahead for the sale of a high performance IBM supercomputer to the Brazilian Embraer state aircraft company , especially in the light of a Nov. 28 joint agreement between Brazil and Argentina to confine their nuclear programmes to peaceful purposes and to ratify a Latin American version of a nuclear non-proliferation treaty . |
| 30 | They can choose whether to enter data themselves or to use the data preparation service in the computer centre ; to enter data using real-time screen-based record editors or to use a monolithic batch mode multifile update system . |